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Rumble - turntable or background noise DG LP

Context: Not really audiophile guy. Set up: AXR 100, Debut Carbon w/Ortofon Blue, KEF LS 50, BW ASW 8 Sub. I am a subscriber to LA Phil so I know what things should sound like. 

I notice a fair amount of what I would call background noise and sub flutter or pulsing when I play Dvorak New World - Berliner/Kubelik and Beethoven 6 Wiener/Bohm. Both are new DG and "remastered". The sound otherwise is very good but the background noise is annoying. When I play C Botti Vol 1 on Blue Note, or one of the 45 RPM  like Brubek or D. Krall they are really quiet. You have to want to find the noise. I have double checked the stylus for proper set up. 1.8 on the nose by measurement. Any idea on why the DG's would be so much worse? I have compared the DG vinyl with the same DG CD's and well, for reasons the defy explanation, I like the sound of the vinyl much better except for the background noise.

Thanks

sbsail9

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sbsail9 OP
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Hello - all good information and thank you.

What I do not understand is why  it is more present with the DG and not on the other vinyl. It would seem to me that if it is sound and vibration causing a feedback through the turntable system it would be noticeable regardless of the vinyl being played. The 45's seem to have a very wide dynamic range. I also do not hear it when I play the Ortofon test record. The disturbance has to start somewhere. I am going to further isolate the TT. TT now sits on a 20x15x1.25 wooden cutting board which is on top of a 60x17 buffet style wooden piece. I use some small felt rounds to level.

sbsail9 OP
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Thank you all - again. I think I will write to DG. This was my second copy of the Pastoral - ordered directly from Germany. The first one had a bump at that was hard to detect visually in the first 2-3 min. Unplayable with the thump. They sent another immediatly. I should check the first one to see if it exhibits the same surface noise. Just thought of that!

sbsail9 OP
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dwette -

The Pastoral is, the Dvroak is an earlier version. As of now it is a mystery. I played the first Pastoral (the one with the bump in the intro) and it sounds like the replacement, same rumbly sounds in places. Again,  I get very little surface noise sound from most - and with the high end (45 RPM) or other 180g recordings it is hard to hear if present at all. At this point I think I will re-jigger the TT placement just as I probably need to anyway and move on. If I had a $5K TT and $30K electronics and speakers it would be different. Life is too short to spend time chasing this. I'll just wait for Dudamel to do his next Mahler. The 7th was mind blowing!

 

 

sbsail9 OP
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Thank you all for your info. I am going to reach out to DG. I'll let you know if they have any comments.

sbsail9 OP
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richardbrand - Good suggestion- let me ponder where. 

Update - I moved the sub about 20"+- away from the TT cabinet that it rests on. Could hear no difference the rumble. It is in a corner and toed in very slightly - I had to lower the volume a bit but it seems to be more omni from that position. 

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